The Columbian

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Oct. 1, 2023

Community celebrates C-Tran’s new ‘Red Vine’ service

Against the backdrop of autumn leaves changing from green to red, dozens of people gathered Saturday to eat licorice and celebrate the opening of C-Tran’s second bus rapid transit line, The Vine, and the Mill Plain Transit Center.

Judge John Fairgrieve listens as lawyers talk during the unlawful detainer docket at the Clark County Courthouse on a recent Thursday.

As mediation program for tenants and landlords ends, evictions surge in Clark County

You can feel the stress in Room 302 of the Clark County Courthouse.

Clark County News

A bigleaf maple shows its autumn yellows in Olympic National Park.

How well do you know the trees in your Vancouver neighborhood?

How many trees call the city of Vancouver home? And what kinds of trees are they? Not even Charles Ray, Vancouver’s urban forester, knows all the answers.

Life

A Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership employee works among the monoculture of reed canary grass northeast of the Campen Creek wetland in Washougal.

With success of Steigerwald refuge restoration, conservationists want to improve Campen Creek in city’s Mable Kerr Park

Conservationists are launching plans to restore a 2,000-foot-long section of Campen Creek in Washougal’s Mable Kerr Park, building on successful restoration work at the nearby Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuge.

Clark County News

Scott Long of Vancouver, greets his dogs, 9-year-old Beni and 6-year-old Darby, right, at Ike Memorial Dog Park in Vancouver. Six years after an off-leash park in Washougal closed, the idea is under consideration in Camas.

Camas city officials consider adding dog park

More than six years after the area’s only off-leash dog park closed, Camas city officials are exploring the possibility of creating one in partnership with a local nonprofit group.

Clark County News

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Outsiders Inn coordinates daily meal trains at the Outpost Safe Stay Community and St. Paul Shelter for people experiencing homelessness. Crystal Drake, client outreach specialist, talks with client Doc Kerr.

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Sada VanQuekelberg makes a drink at a Starbucks retail location, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, in Seattle.

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Northwest

Brendan Medbury, hospitality and engagement worker with Evergreen Treatment Services, holds the door for a client Friday morning in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, on Aug. 18, 2023.

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As fatal drug and alcohol overdoses continue to outpace last year’s record-setting 1,001 deaths in King County, Seattle officials spent the summer beefing up the…

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